Unite calls time on obscene 'Ten to One' pay gap at London
Underground
4th November 2009
Photo opportunity: London Underground workers with
enormous '10' and '1' signifying London Uunderground pay
gap
Wednesday, November 4th, 12.50pm,
London Underground Headquarters, 55 Broadway, London SW1
At exactly ten minutes to one today (Wednesday), Unite members
at London Underground will be calling time on the obscene pay gap
at the capital's tube operator.
The employees, all members of Unite, will be protesting outside
London Underground's headquarters to draw attention to the ten to
one difference in pay between senior Transport for London
executives and the workers providing the services which keep the
capital's passengers on the move. Unite is pushing for London
Underground to close the pay gap and, in doing so, to make the tube
a truly public service.
John Morgan-Evans, Unite's regional officer for London
Underground, said today's protest was a measure of Unite members’
growing frustration: "This company must see that it is just not
acceptable to let such a huge gap in earnings open up between
workers and managers. London Underground must address our
members' legitimate pay claims and act to end the ridiculous pay
gap between the lower paid bulk of the workforce and the highly
paid executives in Transport for London.
"Commuters who have to pay at least £4 to go a couple of stops
on the tube will be sick to learn that their hard-earned money is
going towards keeping executives in the style to which they've
become accustomed.
"For a public service, it is obscene for London Underground to
mimic the worst behaviour of the private sector, where fat cat
bosses lord it over the less well paid and more deserving."
Unite members are being balloted on industrial action on this
year's pay settlement.
ENDS
For further information please call John Morgan-Evans on 07958
514702
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